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NEW FICTION

Fifteen Minutes, by Karen Kingsbury. Zack Dylan has a dream. He wants to sing on the biggest stages, for the biggest crowds. He’ll do anything to make it come true. Zack also made a promise to his college sweetheart when he left Kentucky to compete on the popular TV show “Fifteen Minutes”: if he made it, nothing would change him or his faith in God. As his star rises, Zack is often asked to compromise and quiet his beliefs. Just as he’s on the verge of winning it all, his choices lead him to the brink of personal disaster. Meanwhile a former “Fifteen Minute” winner is searching for meaning amidst her own private losses. Can she warn Zack about the real price of fame? Or will Zack lose everything he loves for his fifteen minutes of glory?….

Winners: A Novel, by Danielle Steel. Olympian hopeful Lily Thomas is injured in a freak ski-lift accident while on vacation in Squaw Valley. Her father refuses to accept that his talented daughter, on her way to the ivy league, will never again walk, let alone ski. He blames her neurosurgeon, Jessie Matthews, for missing something and vows to go to the best specialists until he finds his miracle. Jessie understands how Bill feels, as she is forced to face new parenting challenges when her husband is killed in a car crash the same night as Lily’s accident, leaving her alone to care for her four children. Although Jessie and Bill start as adversaries, they quickly become partners in Lily’s treatment, they become colleagues weaving the strands of the Matthews and Thomas families together….

Accused, by Lisa Scottoline. Mary Dinuzio has just been promoted to partner and is about to take on her most unusual case yet, brought to the firm by a thirteen-year-old genius with a penchant for beekeeping. Allegra Gardner’s sister Fiona was murdered six years ago, and it seems like an open and shut case: the accused, Lonnie Stall, was seen fleeing the scene; his blood was on Fiona and her blood was on him, most damningly, Lonnie Stall pleaded guilty. Allegra believes Lonnie is innocent and has been wrongly imprisoned. The Gardner family is one of the most powerful in the country and Allegra’s parents don’t believe in reopening the case, so taking it on is risky The Rosato & Associates firm can never resist an underdog. Was justice really served all those years ago? It will take a team of unstoppable female lawyers, plus one thirteen-year-old genius, to find out….,